Marshallese Puns

My friend was adopted when he was one year old (without legitimate adoption papers). He always knew he was adopted and recently reconnected with his Marshallese mother. Unfortunately, they have no idea how to apply for a passport. He has a copy of his Marshallese birth certificate and his mother’s.

He wants to get a Marshallese passport to visit his mother and siblings. His current immigration status makes it very hard to do this. He has a cousin in Majuro that is willing to help a bit but not knowledgeable. Marshallese embassy in his country (Philippines) is very difficult to contact or non-existent.

Online resources are very scarce. Can someone please help us get an email or contact number for the Passport office in Majuro? If there is anyone who is knowledgeable of immigration in Marshall Islands, please send a DM.

Any help would be appreciated. Anyone who is able to help us with anything please DM.

Edit: His bio father is Filipino and somehow they got him a Filipino passport (or maybe travel pass) in Marshall Islands that allowed him to travel when he was a baby. After 7 years, he was then illegally adopted i.e. illegitimate birth certificate with new name and adoptive parents’ info. Which is how we was able to go to school and live in the country legally till now (with new name).

I’m in Kwajalein and am sponsoring a 5 yo kid for X-mass and want to hook this kid up. One issue with buying gifts of value for this kid is the class system. His stuff may be “shared” by family or other individuals. How can I buy a stock in his name and set up a way for him to get it when 18?

I’m a(n) aide/teacher in an elementary school where we have a new student you just barely immigrated to the US from the Marshall Islands. We don’t have anyone fluent in Marshallese who can help the faculty understand him. Although he is learning English quite well and for the most part is doing well in most subjects, I still worry. I’m concerned that if there is a medical emergency or something serious is happening that he won’t be able to communicate and something bad could happen as a result. I also don’t want him to feel completely helpless knowing that no one understand him. I’ve tried looking for reliable resources to learn at least basic vocabulary for a 6 year old but have so far turned up empty. Does anyone know a way we can help this kid out?

I know there’s a large Marshallese population, and I would love to try some of the food!

Long story short: I'm struggling to find books printed in languages other than Spanish. Our entire building practices inclusion for ELD/ESL/ELL (which ever term you prefer) for core classes with language support classes. I'm not required to have any books in other languages in my classroom library since I'm technically only middle school science, but coming from a literacy background I want to have some. I don't think even the ELA teachers have any books other than ones written in English.

I have students in my class that do not speak any English and some who have only been in the US for a few months. They are grade level in reading in their native languages and I want to provide them books to enjoy in a language they're familiar with.

How do I go about finding these books? Unlike Spanish, I cannot read nor understand the titles in Russian nor Marshallese, and want to make sure what I'm buying is appropriate and interesting.

Hmmm... a very interesting article from the Guardian...

How many of you know about the US Government’s bombing of the Marshall Islands back in the 1940s?

After the Atom bomb was used against the civilian populations living within Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII, the full effects of radiation poisoning caused by nuclear fallout could be seen by all the world...this was the first time politicians and scientists alike were witnessing the full devastation brought on by their ignorant use of a weapon they didn’t fully understand.

So what did the US Government do? In order to closely study the symptoms and effects experienced by a population exposed to radiation, they seized a large portion of land from the Marshallese people. This is where they decided to test nuclear weapons within range of the atolls where they displaced many of the indigenous....they were told it was safe.

For those of you who don’t know much about the Marshall Islands, here’s a quick summary- The Marshall Islands consists of 1,156 islands across 29 atolls. The simplest way to explain this level of tragedy can be summed up in one word- genocide. The most precious commodity valued by a group of people who live within a community of islands possessing a mean elevation of 6 feet above sea level, is the land itself. Think Waterworld + the Holocaust + Guernica (but with Gorilla Radiation)

A Marshallese individual’s home atoll defines the extents of their’s reality and thus, forming both personal and community identity along with providing them access to the resting places of their ancestors on neighboring atolls. After the bombing of the islands seized by the US military, the radiation rendered them virtually uninhabitable. It gets worse...the radiation ended up riding the wind of the jet steam that passes over the remaining islands. To put it into perspective- a pregnant indigenous woman who was exposed to the invisible fallout hundreds of miles away on a designated (safe) atoll, gave birth to what she described as “a bunch of grapes”. Radiation permeates down to a molecular level. Even the DNA of your grandchildren will develop malformations.

I didn’t learn about this until college. And even then it’s not taught in schools. You won’t see this in any high school history book. I love my country- but I’m ashamed of my government.

“Bravo for the Marshallese” is an enthrography written by an Anrthopologist from the perspective of the surviving Marshallese people who, to this day, suffer from the effects of radiation poisoning. Radiation fr

I know there's a decent Marshallese population in town, so is there a place where I can get Marshallese food?

I'm Jessica Boehm, a reporter covering Phoenix City Hall and Maricopa County for The Arizona Republic and the USA Today Network. I broke the news of Petersen's indictment and have since written more than a dozen stories digging into the allegations.

I'm Robert Anglen, an investigative reporter with The Arizona Republic and the USA TODAY Network. I've exposed a mobster behind failed Toby Keith and Rascall Flatts restaurant chains, abuses within the probate court and multiple white-collar fraud schemes. In my latest investigation, I exposed adoption agencies with ties to Petersen’s Marshall Islands scheme.

Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, in his private-sector career as an adoption attorney, is accused of illegally flying at least 70 pregnant women to give birth in the U.S. in an international adoption fraud scheme. He allegedly flew women from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to live in his houses in Arizona, Utah and Arkansas until they gave birth, fraudulently registered them for Medicaid, paid them $10,000 for their children and charged families up to $40,000 to adopt them.

Our investigation found multiple adoption agencies were tied to Petersen's scheme and had worked with him for years. Two of those agencies were run by the same woman in Arizona and Colorado.

Proof: https://i.redd.it/n8d2x1tjucu31.jpg

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